Do you have the attention span of a gnat?

Can you focus on one thing for 90 minutes without drugs, coffee, Ritalin, ephedrine, or processed sugar?

If you want to be a successful:

Trader

Business owner

Student

Monk

You need to be able to focus on one thing for an extended period of time. There are two things you can do to make this easier.

1. Only focus on things that interest you.

2. Avoid excitotoxins so you can concentrate

3. Don’t take stimulants that help you concentrate all the time.

4. Only use social media for an hour a day

5. Meditate for an hour or two when you can

6. Read an actual book for an extended period of time whenever you can.

7. Don’t watch tv, read a book instead

8. If you have a lot of free time fill it up with something that stimulates you intellectually as well as physically.

9. Avoid people that are addicted to social media and don’t see it as a problem. Unless they are using it to get clients.

10. Only spend time with people that you enjoy listening to, that you find interesting. If you don’t have anyone like that in your life then you need to develop your character….

You see the problem is that the information seeking part of our brain that’s always seeking new information is stronger than the cognitive control part that allows us to complete tasks.

Your brain is designed to seek new information and to be stimulated by new information, it is not designed to focus on one thing that has no variables for a long period of time. This is where your willpower comes in….

The more you train your brain to focus, follow through and complete tasks the easier it will be to focus, follow through and complete tasks.

Don’t start a new positive habit if you don’t think you’ll be able to stick to it.

Don’t give your time, energy or attention to anything that you can’t see yourself engaging in on a consistent basis unless it’s really exciting and fun. We all need to have fun.

This is usually the problem, we’re not having enough fun so we can’t get ourselves to concentrate on the things that matter.

So work hard from Monday-Friday, and focus on something productive in the evenings as well.